Blue Nile Restaurant & Lounge

User Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

The food here is excellent and the ambience is phenomenal. I especially love the Kurumbaa with Missiraa Diimaa and Ethiopian Bread. The 7 or more African Masks dilligently watch over you keeping away all evil.

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User Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

I've been going to Blue Nile for over 3 years just for the top notch beer selection. I finally decided to try the food and am kicking myself for waiting so long. Bar manager, Al, indicated that everything on the menu is good and suggested his favorite, the Akaawi. There are 4 different ways to have the Akaawi, either with chicken, lamb, vegetarian, etc. and then 3 levels of spicyness, mild, medium and hot. I went lamb and medium and it was perfect. The medium is quite quite warm and I understand the hot is very hot, so consider yourself warned.

With Akaawi, you eat it with your hands, not with untensils. It is served with a pancake like bread that you tear off and use to pick up the food and then dip into one of the three sauces that accompany it. A unique dining experience and incredibly good tasting food.

Back to the beer. Al takes his beer very seriously and always has 10-11 top notch offerings on tap and an outstanding selection of bottled beer. On tap you will always find Surly Furious and Surly Bender as well as Grain Belt Premium for those who are on the verge of trying something more interesting. The Blue Nile also has a relationship with Bells Brewing (Kalamazoo, MI), and will usually have 1-2 selections on tap from them. Currently pouring is their Third Coast Old Ale barleywine. To be tapped within the next few months is the Hopslam.

The Blue Nile parking lot is limited, but there is overflow parking on 21st Ave. S. There is usually entertainment on the weekends starting at 10pm, so get there earlier if you want to avoid paying a cover. You owe it to yourself to try this place. Highly recommended.

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User Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

In the past blue nile use to be the spot to kick it at and find good reggae music. Now it seems like things have changed. People don't go there as much and the dancehall reggea downstairs is no longer all I hear is hip hop. Its suppose to be reggae not hip hop. If I wanted to listen to hip hop i would go to crystal~I still enjoy the lived band but i still crave dancehall reggae. They need to make some changes or else blue nile will be no more~

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